Alone, alone, all, all alone, / Alone on a wide, wide sea!
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1798
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It’s the end of the world every day, for someone.
—Margaret Atwood, 2000In a true democracy, everyone can be upper-class and live in Connecticut.
—Lisa Birnbach, 1980One of the important requirements for learning how to cook is that you also learn how to eat.
—Julia Child, 2001Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
—Gore Vidal, 1981Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.
—Aleister Crowley, 1904To be turned from one’s course by men’s opinions, by blame, and by misrepresentation shows a man unfit to hold office.
—Quintus Fabius Maximus, c. 203 BCThere is no crime without precedent.
—Seneca the Younger, c. 60As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
—Pope John Paul II, 1986No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before.
—Jonathan Swift, 1706How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man’s self to himself! He is his own exclusive object.
—Charles Lamb, 1833War is the child of pride, and pride the daughter of riches.
—Jonathan Swift, 1697Nature is the art of God.
—Thomas Browne, 1635